Anyone else annoyed about this?

Has anyone else seen this? I know it is really old news but was just wondering. I came across a blog post about XBL going up, then checked my XBL email address to see if it was for real and I had an email.

This is a wow-related website and you're asking if it's wrong to milk a game's fanbase? :\ well wow does it.

lol why because it's been 15 bucks a month, from the start, as always? I doubt it. Now if you're talking about the blizzard store. That doesnt effect how you play the game, doesn't effect anything at all. They're not forcing you to buy it, therefore they are not milking anything. 15x12 = 180 a year. Theirs is $59.99. Wow's playability is much higher than Halos. By playability I mean how long you can actually play the game. Someone who plays Halo:Reach online for one full year for 59.99. And someone who plays WoW for 180 a year, doesn't matter, their paying for what they love to do, and they got the money to do it. There's no reason to have a heart attack for a 10 dollar increase, it's still cheap. And the cards you can get from best buy and gamestop are still the same price, which is the best way to go anyway.

lol why because it's been 15 bucks a month, from the start, as always? I doubt it. Now if you're talking about the blizzard store. That doesnt effect how you play the game, doesn't effect anything at all. They're not forcing you to buy it, therefore they are not milking anything. 15x12 = 180 a year. Theirs is $59.99. Wow's playability is much higher than Halos. By playability I mean how long you can actually play the game. Someone who plays Halo:Reach online for one full year for 59.99. And someone who plays WoW for 180 a year, doesn't matter, their paying for what they love to do, and they got the money to do it. There's no reason to have a heart attack for a 10 dollar increase, it's still cheap. And the cards you can get from best buy and gamestop are still the same price, which is the best way to go anyway.

I am aware that they are companies, and they want to make money. But...

When A company is already making a great deal of money(profit) and then adds additional charges that could be included for what they are already making, it shows that their focus has shifted from customer satisfaction to more profit focus.

The same could be said about XBL assuming the costs to maintain and user base is the same.

I agree but as with LoTRO, there would be little to no way for the company to make back the money ther are putting into the game. It takes more than 1 server to run a realm, and there's well over 100 realms on WoW. An expansion every year would not allow them to do that, there would be less content added, less major patches because they wouldn't have the funds to make new content and still have enough servers to run the realms. And with the price raise, I think it just has to do the release of more games that need more servers to run, including Kinect. I don't like it either, but it's not really that big of a deal.